Surface

Creates a Blur surface. Everything behind this surface is blurred by some amount. The quality and refresh speed of the blur effect is not settable or guaranteed. It is an error to lock a Blur surface, since it doesn't have a backing store.

Creates a Dim surface. Everything behind this surface is dimmed by the amount specified in setAlpha(). It is an error to lock a Dim surface, since it doesn't have a backing store.

Mask used for FX values above

Creates a normal surface. This is the default

Implies "HARDWARE", the surface is to be used by the GPU additionally the backbuffer is never preserved for these surfaces.

The surface is to be used by hardware accelerators or DMA engines

Surface is created hidden

Creates a surface where color components are interpreted as "non pre-multiplied" by their alpha channel. Of course this flag is meaningless for surfaces without an alpha channel. By default surfaces are pre-multiplied, which means that each color component is already multiplied by its alpha value. In this case the blending equation used is: DEST = SRC + DEST * (1-SRC_ALPHA) By contrast, non pre-multiplied surfaces use the following equation: DEST = SRC * SRC_ALPHA * DEST * (1-SRC_ALPHA) pre-multiplied surfaces must always be used if transparent pixels are composited on top of each-other into the surface. A pre-multiplied surface can never lower the value of the alpha component of a given pixel. In some rare situations, a non pre-multiplied surface is preferable.

Creates a surface without a rendering buffer. Instead, the content of the surface must be pushed by an external entity. This is type of surface can be used for efficient camera preview or movie play back.

The surface contains secure content, special measures will be taken to disallow the surface's content to be copied from another process. In particular, screenshots and VNC servers will be disabled, but other measures can take place, for instance the surface might not be hardware accelerated.

Enable dithering when compositing this surface

Freeze the surface. Equivalent to calling freeze()

Hide the surface. Equivalent to calling hide()

Describe the kinds of special objects contained in this Parcelable's marshalled representation.

Does this object hold a valid surface? Returns true if it holds a physical surface, so lockCanvas() will succeed. Otherwise returns false.

draw into a surface

set surface parameters. needs to be inside open/closeTransaction block

set the orientation of the given display.

Returns a string containing a concise, human-readable description of this object. Subclasses are encouraged to override this method and provide an implementation that takes into account the object's type and data. The default implementation is equivalent to the following expression:

   getClass().getName() + '@' + Integer.toHexString(hashCode())

See Writing a useful toString method if you intend implementing your own toString method.

unlock the surface. the screen won't be updated until post() or postAll() is called

unlock the surface and asks a page flip

Flatten this object in to a Parcel.

Called before the object's memory is reclaimed by the VM. This can only happen once the garbage collector has detected that the object is no longer reachable by any thread of the running application.

The method can be used to free system resources or perform other cleanup before the object is garbage collected. The default implementation of the method is empty, which is also expected by the VM, but subclasses can override finalize() as required. Uncaught exceptions which are thrown during the execution of this method cause it to terminate immediately but are otherwise ignored.

Note that the VM does guarantee that finalize() is called at most once for any object, but it doesn't guarantee when (if at all) finalize() will be called. For example, object B's finalize() can delay the execution of object A's finalize() method and therefore it can delay the reclamation of A's memory. To be safe, use a ReferenceQueue, because it provides more control over the way the VM deals with references during garbage collection.